Apologies about not getting back sooner.. going through hours of searches (along with advice here), I was overlooking the simplest thing.. I had originally installed the loader on sbd (but Lilo was installed on sba..)..
Fixed now with just a simple terminal install to sbd and update ;^)
Thank you all for assistance ;^)
(kicking myself in butt for overlooking that >.<)
Yeah, that will get you every time.